Current Affairs Quiz: 18 March 2015

1) Name the Union Minister of Chemicals and
Fertilizers who launched the Pharma Jan Samadhan Scheme on March 12, 2015, to
address the grievances of consumers (related to the prices of drugs and the
availability of medicines)?

(A) Ananth Kumar

(B) Harsha Vardhan

(C) Rajnath Singh

(D) Nirmala Sitharaman

2) A historic bronze statue of Mahatma
Gandhi was unveiled on 14 March 2015 at the Parliament Square in which country?

(A) USA

(B) France

(C) Canada

(D) Britain

3) Who recently became the fastest
cricketer to reach 20 centuries in one day International matches?

(A) Virat Kohli

(B) Hashim Amla

(C) Kumar Sangakkara

(D) Misbah ul Haq

4) Statue of Mahatma Gandhi was recently
unveiled in Parliament Square of Britain jointly by the British Prime Minister
David Cameron and?

(A) Gopalkrishna Gandhi

(B) Amitabh Bachchan

(C) Arun Jaitley

(D) Narendra Modi

5) Lia van Leer who passed away on 13 March
2015 was a pioneer of _____cinema?

(A) Israeli

(B) Italian

(C) British

(D) French

6) Astronomer's have recently found the
most conclusive evidence yet that a large watery ocean lies beneath the surface
of Ganymede. Ganymede is the moon of?

(A) Mars

(B) Venus

(C) Jupiter

(D) Saturn

7) Who is proposed to be appointed as the
brand ambassador of the Northeast as per recent news reports?

(A) Baichung Bhutia

(B) MC Mary Kom

(C) Sania Mirza

(D) MS Dhoni

8) Pi Day is observed every year on?

(A) March 14

(B) March 15

(C) March 16

(D) None of these

9) Bhaiyyaji Joshi was recently elected
general secretary of which organization?

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1) Name the Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers who launched the Pharma Jan Samadhan Scheme on March 12, 2015, to address the grie...